Ottoman/Turkish Visions of the Nation, 1860-1950

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-20

3. The Encounter with the Ottoman Heritage: Imperial Grandeur, Medieval Decay, and Double Discourses

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   Pages 21-67

4. The Encounter with the Islamic Past: Turks, Arabs and Persians

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   Pages 68-105

5. Anatolia’s Eternal Destiny was Sealed: Seljuks of Rum in the Turkish National(IST) Imagination from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Republican Era

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   Pages 106-134

6. The Depiction of European Feudalism, the Middle Ages, and the Crusades in Late Ottoman and Turkish Republican Imagery: The Constitutive Other of an Emerging Identity

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   Pages 135-163

7. From ‘Renewal and Regeneration’ to ‘Decline and Collapse’: The Rise and Fall of Tanzimat (1839–1950)

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   Pages 164-190

8. Infusing the Young Spirits with the Motivation to Oppose and Counter Oppression: Revolution and the French Revolution

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   Pages 191-222

9. Conclusion

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   Pages 223-227

10. Back Matter

    Pages 228-301

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Seeing the critical phase in the construction of a Turkish historical imagination between 1860 to 1950 disregarding the political disruptions, this book demonstrates how history and historical imagery had been instrumental in the nation-building process.

• Turkish/Ottoman Intellectual History
• 19th/20th Centuries
• Turkish Nationalism
• History of Diplomacy
• Late Ottoman Empire
• Modern Ideologies
• crusades
• empire
• Europe
• history
• Middle Ages
• nation
• revolution

• Istanbul Technical University, UK

  Doğan Gürpınar

Do?an Gürp?nar is Assistant Professor at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. He is the author of four books and numerous articles in English and Turkish on contemporary Turkish ideologies, Turkish intellectual history and late Ottoman history.

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